70k people sign petition to not allow Bezos reentry when he launches his flying space penis.

China is just a massive corporation run by their government, the pollution and horrible conditions over there almost make the worst over here look like heaven.

You can do what you want but…

China had a masterplan based on the assumption that the special treatment they received for decades to try and coax them into the international community would continue even when they abolish any pretense of reform and start trying to corner markets in other countries.

Now that the plan is shown to be a fantasy and they are panicking and lashing out. Also, their view of geopolitics is based on two flawed assumptions.

First, traditional sino-centric assumptions of vassal states. They view hegemonic states as the only real geopolitical players, hence the obsession with the USA. Because of this they get tunnel vision in their conflict with the US without really considering how smaller countries look at it.

Second, vulgar Marxist assumptions of the primacy of material interests. They believe that other countries will accept the dictat of whichever country has the greatest economic clout. This is a simplistic view which overlooks other considerations such as national security, as well as the role of non-state civil society actors, who have their own interests in human rights, property rights, freedom of speech, political rights etc, and have the power to determine and shape the policies of state actors.

The lashing out is an attempt to show third countries that China is top dog and they should bend the knee to China instead of US. It is a flawed worldview because I don't think other countries considered themselves to be bending the knee to the US, and it is more like China is manufacturing a situation where it is in the interests of third countries to back US containment policies.

Under Xi, room for discussion has narrowed so much that there are too many yes men in the inner circle and it would take a bold person to point out that UK changing their mind on Huawei is not because of finally succumbing to American pressure, but a rational response to Chinese actions that is in the UK's interests. So rather than pointing out that Xi's defining policy of a more assertive China is fundamentally wrong and self-defeating, people close to him will blame everything on US counter-measures.

As the fundamental (wrong) assumptions about the vassal nature of countries other than the US, China and maybe Russia go unchallenged, it is therefore logically consistent for them to assume that other countries resisting China is an outcome of US power, and therefore China needs to be even more assertive to show that it is them, not the US, who other countries need to listen to.

These assumptions are not new, but when China had fewer interests outside of its borders they were less important. Xi's return to one-man dictatorship and ideological uniformity has, however, constrained the possibility of correcting this course, and doing so requires challenging decades of Communist Power dogma on international relations so there would be a lot of cognitive dissonance in seeing where the problem lies, and also a lot of face lost as the CCP would have to basically admit that it doesn't understand world politics very well.

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Sounds to me like you are trying to post-facto rationalise your anger and hatred, friend,